Mansoor Ijaz - An American businessman of Pakistani Ancestry, an investment banker and media commentator, mostly in relation to Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.   He is the founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management LLC, a New York investment partnership since 1990 that includes retired General James Alan Abrahamson, former director of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.   Away from Crescent's daily business affairs, Ijaz serves on the College Foundation Board of Trustees at the University of Virginia and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.   Ijaz appears regularly on a variety of financial and political news programs for CNN, Fox News, BBC, Germany ARD TV, Japan NHK, ABC, and NBC.